Mysuru: The Dasara pageant in the city every year is a sight to behold with the caparisoned Ambari elephant carrying the 750-kg golden howdah. This year again Arjuna has been chosen to carry it on Sept. 30, the day of Vijayadashami.
However, the animal right activists always feel that the howdah-carrying elephant might be under terrible stress, as he is made to carry an object weighing 30 per cent of his own body weight over a distance of 5.5 kilometres.






